Habitat fragmentation of freshwater ecosystems is increasing rapidly, however the understanding of extinction debt and species decline in riverine habitat fragments lags behind that in other ecosystems. The mighty rivers that drain the Himalaya - the Ganges, Brahmaputra, Indus, Mekong and Yangtze - are amongst the world’s most biodiverse freshwater ecosystems. Many hundreds of dams have been constructed, are under construction, or are planned on these rivers and large hydrological changes and losses of biodiversity have occurred and are expected to continue.

The Kolkata National Green Tribunal on Monday asked the Ministry of Environment and Forest to come with its replies to the queries raised by the Assam Public Works (APW) in its case against big dam

Two little-known Australian dolphin species are vulnerable to human coastal development and could be at risk of localised extinction, the first research to consider the population structure of the

KARACHI: Environmentalists, wildlife experts and other stakeholders at a public hearing of a coal power project to be built at Port Qasim declared its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report ‘

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will sponsor studies on turtles by Wildlife Institute of India (WII) to track the movement, migration and habitat of this marine species in the ocean

Green cleaning brand Ecover to unveil packaging innovation to highlight long-term dangers of dumping plastic in ocean

In the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Pakistan there is no constitutional cover to protect the wildlife species.

The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) and the ministry of power have yet again failed to file their replies before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday on NHPC's Lower Subansiri Hy

Freshwater dolphins, popularly known as shusuk, are disappearing fast from the country’s rivers due to illegal catching and the loss of their habitats caused by reduced river

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday decried the Assam government after the latter failed to submit report on the 2000MW Lower Subansiri Hydro Power Project.

The Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Ministry of Power also failed to submit their reports when the tribunal took up the case for hearing.

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